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During the first 18 months of Ronald Reagan's Administration, Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott spent much of his time covering the activities of Secretary of State Alexander Haig. It was, says Talbott, a first-rate assignment. "Haig is an exciting, often controversial personality," Talbott notes, "with an embattled view of the world and the press. He was one of Washington's best stories." Now, 21 months after Haig's resignation from the Cabinet, Talbott can look back upon a unique opportunity to re-explore the events he once reported. He has spent most of the past...
...Talbott went over the excerpts line by line with Haig in the former Secretary's Washington office. Recalls Talbott: "I was impressed by Haig's care and conscientiousness in helping preserve the essence of his story. I was also struck by his sensitivity to the inevitable difficulty of compressing a complicated, important story that Haig tells in 384 book pages...
...memoirs, to be published by Macmillan early next month, defend his record as Secretary of State and attack some officials in the White House inner circle whom he blames for his downfall. One interesting aspect of Haig's story from a journalist's point of view, says Talbott, is "the impact of journalism on people who make the news. Haig sees the press as having a key part in his biggest losing fight, against White House insiders for access to, and influence on, the President. We of the press were well aware of the struggle, but were assured...
...distance dialogue that Reagan and Chernenko began last week. The two leaders are likely to continue publicly exchanging carefully modulated but hedged probes and propaganda parries, remaining in their respective capitals while their emissaries slog away in private at the daunting problems that divide the two countries. -By Strobe Talbott...
This issue's Men of the Year stories were supervised by Assistant Managing Editor John Elson and Senior Editor Henry Muller. The main narrative was the work of Senior Writer George Church, who drew extensively on the reporting of Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, Moscow Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof, Eastern Europe Bureau Chief John Moody and White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett. Their efforts bring into distinctive focus for TIME'S readers the most compelling story of 1983: the superpowers' confrontation, and the actions of the leaders who must cope with...